At the beginning, the film states that it is fictionalized, but with some truth in it: "Based on real people, real events and locations". After this statement, we start following Ashkan and Negar, two young Indie rock musicians, trying to find band members along with fake passports and visas in order to leave Iran and perform in a festival in London. The film trows you in the young world of musicians and until the end, you stop questioning the realness of the film.

The actors plays themselves and a low-key camera direction follows simple acting, with this unusual re-animation method, the film portrays Iran's unknown underground music scene. It was directed in only 17 days, without permission from the government and almost all of the cast fled Iran right after the shoot, because they know they would be arrested otherwise.

Interestingly, these youngster do not do a political or revolutionary music as expected, they just want to do the music they want. But Ahmedinejad finds this type of music as a western propaganda and dangerous for Islamic culture, this is why you can be arrested, not for recording an album or performing on a concert, but for rehearsing a song that is western. The result is a huge amount of illegal bands jamming in secret locations 4 levels underground, in a farm or on an unfinished instruction building. According to the film, today there is at least 300 bands in Iran who does Indie Rock.

In Iran, playing western instruments on t.v. or radio and performing as a female solo is band. If you're a woman and wants to perform, you need to find two other women to play with, for the reasons that is beyond me. In one of the most interesting scenes, in order to avoid the police, a heavy metal band jams in a farm. But the music is so noisy that the cows stopped eating and mows unhappily behind the band, around straws and a drum set. But Persian music created under these circumstances is a very powerful and an influential one. The band which suppose to oppress them makes them stronger.

As Ashkan and Negar is trying to go to London, they met the most interesting character of the film, cinema and music enthusiastic, producer or agent wannabe Nadar. Nadar tries to hook them with fake passports and visas and took them in a musical journey in the back alleys of Tehran.

'No one Knows About Persian Cats' is not only a film which opens the closed doors of Persian underground music, but it's also a fantastic musical film. The bands that Askhan and Negar meet with, plays from jazz and blues, to rock, rap and even heavy metal and their music mixing with the living texture of Tehran. This the reason behind its success as a musical film.

The movie is about oppressions and bans, but aside from its end is a hopeful and happy film. The end is designed to trow the audience to a wall, with the reality call for these hopeful and visionary youngsters, the ending forces the audience to raise their voice about the current situation in Iran.

The happy news is that after the award 'Un Certain Regard' that the film won at the Cannes, the lead actors Ashkan and Negar found asylum in England. The remaining cast cannot also return to Iran, as the drummer who returned to Iran for family matters got battered and arrested by the police for appearing in the film. At the end, the film is very hopeful as it shows us a different kind of Persian young that most beliefs. Now, let's tune to the soundtrack of the film, see if you agree with me...